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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. – Martin Esslin

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[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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